Thoughts On Alien Life
The subject of non-terrestrial (alien) life is gaining momentum as an every day subject. Alien life in the form of bacteria is being brought to collective consciousness by NASA, and aside from that, more and more people accept the possibility that we’re being visited by intelligent life forms. It seems that even the news, though certainly still taking their gigglesome approach to the topic, is also more willing to report on the possibility of visitors.
Even I have seen some strange sights in the skies, though I can’t say that they were alien in origin: A star that had sat still for twenty or thirty minutes quickly crossed the sky to the horizon of the rising sun and once again became motionless. A foo-fighter chased a jet that was flying over our house and then shot straight up and vanished. Another seemingly motionless star decided to land beyond the distant line of trees, changing colors from that of a twinkling star to shifting reds and blues before it passed below line of sight.
There are definitely odd things out there, but what are they? Obviously I can’t answer that question, but let’s assume that aliens exist. Then we can ask some very fundamental questions that may have not yet been asked.
The very notion of an alien life form means that this life form is going to be different from us. Quite possibly considerably different. We humans are the way that we are because we have grown up on the Earth. Our planet experiences all of the things that it experiences: certain doses of natural radiation, certain types of light, our plants produce certain gases, and so on.
The subject that I want to touch on the most is eyesight. You and me, we all see the way that we do because we have grown up, as a species, on a planet that has a certain type of sun and our planet has a certain type of atmosphere. Because of this our brains processes this light in a certain way.
You see blue, I see blue. You see yellow, I see yellow. Unless one of us has a color deficiency then that’s always going to be the same.
Simply put, the wave lengths that enter into our eyes are translated by our brain as being a specific color, but in truth, that color does not actually exist. It is merely the way that our human eyes and our human brains have come to process those particular waves of radiation. Yes, light is a type of radiation.
What about the aliens, the so-called extraterrestrial biological entities (EBEs)? Everyone automatically assumes that they see light in exactly the same way as you or I. That they would see blue when we see blue. That light that is white to us would also be white to them.
I say that this assumption is nonsense. An EBE’s biological form - it’s brain, its eyes, its nervous system - is going to be different from our own. Quite possibly completely different. The planet that it comes from will also quite possibly be completely different from our own. There is every indication that an alien life form would not see the same colors as us. There is every indication that an alien life form would not even hear the same sounds as you or I!
I heard a story awhile back about extraterrestrial craft flying over a field. It was dark out, and these craft were apparently shining a blue light into the field. They were apparently searching for something. I listened to this story for a few moments and then I began to ask myself, “Why was the light blue”?
Is it because what they were searching for would react in some way to that spectrum of light, or, I wondered, was it because this light wasn’t blue to them? Did their alien eyes and their alien brains translate that color of blue into white for them?
It’s the most simple things that we overlook in our day to day lives. The stuff that’s a basic part of our daily lives are always taken for granted, and the colors that we see are certainly amongst those daily basics.
So the next time that you’re listening to or reading a story about alien life forms, stop and think about what you’re reading or what it is that you’re hearing. If everything that the ETs are doing seem to be all too convenient for the humans experiencing the situation - the colors, the sounds, the smells - then that in itself could raise flags about the story.
A human would add in those details to draw in their audience, but would EBEs experience them the same way that we would?
~Steph
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